5i8 NOTES OF A BOTANIST 
and spices and odoriferous substances, for the more 
aesthetic pleasures of varied flower or glossy veined 
wood, or to aid him in the development of the arts 
and sciences to which his ever progressive nature 
impels him. 
Among these strange and varied products none 
perhaps have such remarkable and useful physical 
properties as that now familiar substance, india- 
rubber, the need for which is leading to the whole 
world being ransacked and entire populations being 
employed to obtain it.] 
END OF VOL. I 
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